Dalai Lama, Colombia is a documentary about a three-day visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Bogota´, Colombia, in May 2006. It offers both an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the various public events that took place during his stay, as well as rare glimpses of the Dalai Lama's private audiences with diverse members of Colombian society − government officials, members of the Buddhist community, indigenous tribal leaders, and other victims of the nation's ongoing conflict.

Editor Kevin Chapados is a producer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2003 he spent three months in Myanmar (former Burma) documenting opium farmers, and female gold miners for two documentaries, Death of the Golden Triangle, and Women on the Golden Road to Mandalay for Arte. In 2004 he completed editing on the award winning film Popaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English, distributed by Cinema Libre. Kevin was also a pioneer of internet video and worked as an editor for Rocketboom, later starting his own web-video site, Jet Set Graffiti. Apart from film, Internet, and TV, Kevin has also has also worked with the Smithsonian Museum where he compiled over sixteen videos that were on display as part of there Nobel Prize exhibit. He has also had his video art displayed at the Jonathan Levine Gallery, Opera Gallery, and MOCA DC. During the summer of 2008 Kevin returned to Southeast Asia along with Henry Rollins to produce and edit two feature films, H For Hunger and Under the Radar: Burma, due out in 2009. He also produced and edited Dalai Lama: Colombia, a 56-minute behind the scenes look at the Dalai Lama’s travels in Bogota´, Colombia and just completed his directorial debut: Abraham Obama.

Co-Producer Cecil Matthai Esquivel-Obrego´n is the Director of Post-Production and the Director of the Digital Media Center for Film at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Recently he has taught children to make their own movies in Tibet, and is establishing a Himalayan Summer Film Program. He is currently finishing three documentaries, including co-producing Dalai Lama, Colombia, for which he also served as principal camera and post-production coordinator.

Director Lina Dorado is a visual artist and a filmmaker, graduate from both the MFA (Directing) Film Program at Columbia University in New York City and from Central Saint Martins College of Art in London, UK with a BA Honors degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Film and Video.

Her first short film, 2AM Two Around the Mountain (2005), a dual screen animation, premiered at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and screened the same year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It tells parallel stories of a Tibetan Nun in the Himalayas and a Colombian Miner in the Andes mountains, and it won First prize at National New Visions Award for Fine Arts Short Film (U.S). Dorado also co-wrote the award winning animated short film Poporo that is now on permanent exhibit at the Gold Museum in Bogota´.

She has been a story consultant for films such as: Gogol Bordello Non-stop that follows seven years in the life of the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. In 2008 she completed a curatorial project with the Office of Tibet NY and the Universidad Nacional in Colombia and organized the first live Traditional Mandala Sand Painting in Bogota´with Tibetan Monks from the Namgyal Monastery and an exhibit of photographs around the lives of Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. Dorado has worked as a visual artist in collaboration with Luis Cantillo for over a decade and together they have exhibited at iNIva in London, Midlanda Konst Hall in Sweden, Hastings Museum, England, Black &White Gallery Williamsburg-Chelsea in the U.S. and others. She is represented by the L. Collector Gallery in New York City and solo shows include Alliance Francaise, Museo de la Universidad Nacional, Galeria Diners, Bogota´.

They have authored two books in bilingual editions: Second Sight (ArteDos Editores) and Drawing Only (Villegas Editores). Their book Doble Vista/Second Sight written by Dorado and photographs by both was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA) and the Whitney Museum for their Artists' Books Collection. Awards for her work include: Best Director Award, Columbia University (New York, 2004), First Prize Fine Arts Short Film, New Screen TV (USA, 2006), II Bienal Inter-Americana de Video (Washington D.C., 2004), File Festival (Brazil, 2004), the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship, England.

Dorado’s interest in both Buddhist philosophy and film gave her the opportunity to be selected to direct a feature documentary about the Dalai Lama's visit to Bogota´ Colombia in 2006. Dorado started Illusory World Productions, alongside Kevin Chapados and Cecil Matthai Esquivel-Obrego´n, in the summer of 2007.